Garment-cutting device



1,642,964 Sept 20, G R. MATHER GARMENT CUTTING DEVICE Filed A1121. 27, 1926 fv INF/V701? G /i M71 r" 5V ATTK Patented Sept. 20, 1927.

able for different sizes of t e same L'll UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

Application filed August 87, 1896, Serial No. 181,898, and in Great Britain June 14, 1988.

This invention relates to devices for the cuttin out of garments and of the kind comprising a sheet of material, say pa er, on which the shapes or atterns are mar ed either singly or in multiple, the latter being for the purpose of makln the device suitarment.

The device is of the kind in w ich the sheet is adapted to be laid onto the cloth and to be cut with it, that is to say it is not intended that the shapes shall be cut out of the sheet into loose pieces which are individually laid onto the cloth, but the paper pattern sheet of the present invention is instead placed as a whole and in its uncut condition upon the cloth, the attern shapes or portions of said pattern s ieet being advantageously arranged for the most economical cutting of the cloth. the cloth and the pattern sheet bein simultaneously cut as if they were one iabric, with the various pattern portions preferably havin been previously pinned or otherwise attac ed to the cloth so that when the-pattern-sheet is cut with the cloth each pattern portion or shape will be attached by the pin or equivalent fastenin means to the corresponding cut portion 0 the fabric.

The invention is designed chiefly for the pur ose of enablin the One sheet to be use on cloth of difierent widths. for example it may be used on cloth 36 inches wide or on cloth 54 inches wide.

It will be evident that if a sheet of shapes as hitherto made was suitable for the narrower material it would,.if applied to the wider cloth, result in considera le waste of the cloth and conversely if made for wider cloth it could not be advantageously used on narrower material. The present invention enables a person havin a sheet of sha es to choose either widt of material an use the sha es or patterns economicall and satisfactorily for whichever width is chosen.

The invention may be broadly described as consisting in makin the sheet of shapes with one (first) art suitable for two widths of cloth and with another (second) part suitable for use with the first part on a narrower width of cloth and another (third) part also suitable for use with the first art and suitable for use with the wider 0 0th. The said second and third parts will, in a general way, carry much the .same shapes.

When the sheet is used either the second part or the third part will not be required. he most convenient way of making the sheet is to have one main part with the other parts on two adjacent sides of the main part.

In a simple form the sheet will comprise a rectangu ar part wherein, one side will be exten ed to form the second part and the other side will be extended to form the third part. The markings of the shapes may overlap from what we have called the second and third parts onto the first part.

An ex :mple of the invention is 'shown in the accompanying drawings in which a sheet of paper or other suitable material carries the patterns or shapes and is divided into three parts. 1, 2 and 3 respectively.

The width of the parts 1 and 2 may be takenalong the line a'3 as 54 inches and the width of the parts 1 and 3 on the lines 2-4; as 36 inches.

e part 1 carries multi-outline shapes a a of substantially known kind and these are used with either the shapes b b in the par: 5 or with the like shapes 0 c in the par If the parts 1 and 2 are used on wide material the part 3 may be thrown away and if parts 1 and 3 are used on narrower materlal then the art 2 is thrown awa It that some of the s a will be observe such as 03 may extend from the part 2 into part 1 and a so from part 3 into part 1.

The shapes or patterns shown are not to be taken as a correctly shaped or as a full set of patterns and it must be understood that any suitable set of shapes may be printed or otherwise marked out in single or multiple manner on the sheet.

For large sheets the part 2 or the part 3 may be provided on a separate sheet with appropriate re 'stermg marks on the margins to correct y position the separate sheet beside the larger or main sheet.

Instructions for use may be printed on the sheet in any suitable places.

It will be noted that the pattern sheets of the present invention preferably consist of three pattern portions, a main pattern portion and two auxiliary pattern ortions, each of said pattern portions being substantially rectangular, the pattern ortions bein preferably so dimensioned t at one of t e dimensions of one of the auxiliary Y veniently selectively employed with the pat-c pattern portions corresponds to the width of one of the materials with which the pattern sheet is adapted to he used while one of the dimensions of the remaining auxiliar pattern portions corresponds to the widt of the remaining material with which the pattern sheet of the present invention is adapted to be used. It will also be noted that the patterns or auxiliary pattern portions are substantially duplicates of the patterns or shapes of the auxiliary pattern portion, so that while materials of two different widths may be contern sheets of the present invention, one and the same garment is in either case out from the materlal of selected width. Finally, it will be noted that the auxiliary pattern portions are so arranged with respect to the main pattern portion that the proper dimensions coincide in the formation of what is substantially an L-shaped pattern sheet having a corner portion tree from any patterns or shapes completing the pattern sheet in substantially rectangular form.

What I claim is 1. A. device for cutting out garments comprisin a sheet of material marked with patterns %or parts of the same garment and didivided into three substantially rectangular sections two of which contain patterns that are arranged on adjacent sides of the other part so that either of the said two may be selectively used with the said other part.

2. A device for cutting out cloth for garments consisting of sheet material marked by printing, with a set of patterns for parts of the same garment some in duplicate, said material comprising a main part and two other parts, said three parts being substan tially rectangular and said two other parts carrying like patterns either of said two other parts lacing adapted to he selectively shapes on one of the,

menace used with the main part so as to provide with the main part the'com lete set suitable for use with materials of different widths.

3. A device for cutting out garments consisting'of a sheet of material comprising a main pattern portion the two dimensions of which correspond to two difierent widthsof materials from which a garment may be cut, and a plurality of auxiliary pattern portions adapted to be selectively used with the main pattern portion in accordance with the width of the material from which the garment is to he cut.

4. A device for cutting out garments consisting of a sheet of material comprising a main pattern portion the two dimensions of which correspond to two different widths of materials from which a garment may be cut, and a plurality of auxiliary pattern portions adapted to be selectively used with the main pattern portion in accordance with the width of the material from which the garment is to he cut, the patterns of one of said auxiliary pattern portions being substantial duplicates of the patterns of the other of said auxiliary pattern portions.

5. A device for cutting out garments con sisting of a sheet of paper comprising a main pattern portion the two dimensions of which correspond to two different widths of materials from which a garment may be cut, and a plurality of auxiliary pattern portions adapted to be selectively used with the main pattern portion in accordance with the width of the material from which the garment is tohe cut, said auxiliary pattern portions being arranged on adjacent sides of said main pattern portion with sides of corresponding dimensions of said main and auxiliary pattern portions being coincident. in testimony whereof I ailix my signature.

GREIG It. MATI-IER. 

